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RE: Matthews versus Withers
(06-23-2016 12:09 PM)DoubleDogDare Wrote: MM's playoff record was 14-31 and definitely helped by two great seasons. Outside of those two years he had 3 wins against playoff teams in 13 years! Take away the outliers (two 0-3 seasons and two playoff runs) and he would have been 3-23.
2013: 0-2, Lost to UNH and Towson
2012: 0-2, Lost to Nova and ODU
2011: 1-4, Playoff win versus EKU; Lost to ND, UNH, ODU, Maine
2010: 1-3, Beat W&M, Lost to Del, UNH, Nova
2009: 0-3, Lost to Nova, Rich, W&M
2008: 6-1, Beat Wofford and Nova in playoffs, also beat Rich, Nova, Maine and App State; Lost to Montana
2007: 1-3, Beat UNH, Lost to Rich, Del, App State
2006: 0-2, Lost to App State and Youngstown
2005: 0-1, Lost to Rich
2004: 5-1, Beat Montana!, W&M, Furman, Lehigh, Del; Regular season loss to W&M
2003: 0-1, Lost to Mass
2002: 0-2, Lost to Maine, NE
2001: 0-3, Lost to Maine, Nova and W&M
2000: 0-2, Lost to Del and Rich
1999: 0-1, Lost to Troy
I fully expect I missed a team or two but ehhh oh well.
I have 14-32, the only one 1 see you missed is 1999 L @ Hofstra (OOC at the time). But it doesn't matter to the overall point.
So here's the record vs playoff teams (regular season and playoffs):
MM: 14-32, about a 30% winning percentage.
EW: 1-5, about a 17% winning percentage.
MH: 7-0 so far, 100% winning percentage.
One thing that must be said, for MM's 1st 11 seasons, the playoff field was only 16 teams. 10'-12' it was 20 teams. Only in MM's last season, 2013, did the field expand to 24 teams. So the average playoff team during MM's tenure was of higher caliber than during Wither's tenure. If the playoff field had been 24 teams during MM's entire tenure, he would have had a little better than 30% winning percentage vs playoff teams, but still well south of .500..
Of course if you play a team with a winning record in their other games, and beat them, they are less likely to be a playoff team. If you lose to them, they are more likely to be a playoff team. Still better to compare record vs playoff teams than record vs ranked teams (at the time) because of how worthless the polls are. Example this season RU lost to an unranked Elon (now 7-1), and beat a ranked Albany (now 3-5).
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2017 08:38 PM by BDKJMU.)
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